Reading the testimony of Sylvia Phillips reminds me of my first visit to our Dallas, Oregon, church on Mother’s Day in 1974. Shortly before, I had attended our Roseburg Apostolic Faith church, and the people there told me of the Dallas location, just thirty miles north of the Oregon State University...

On January 22, 2017, Debbie and I were among those who celebrated the dedication of a new Philippines headquarters church in Bagong Sikat. (You can read more about the dedication service in this news article.) We had arrived from Portland a few days earlier and immediately had been taken on a...

When my wife, Debbie, was just seven years old, she sat in a children’s church service in our Medford, Oregon, church. During that service God spoke to her heart through the songs, testimonies, and sermon. Upon realizing His love for her, she gave Him her life, and still looks back...

Last month, Debbie and I were blessed to welcome our seventh grandchild, whose imminent arrival is referred to in the article Designed by God. Little George’s birth brought our grandchild census to six grandsons and one granddaughter. As with the first six births, we were prepared to head to the...

In a recent Portland sermon, the text was taken from Romans 1:16 where Paul declared himself, “not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.” Writing this column on the anniversary of my March 17, 1974 conversion, the “unashamed” aspect of that message remains on my mind.

At 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night our telephone rang. It was Neil Green, who said, “You had better come.” He and Maria were on their way to the hospital, where their baby daughter, Paige, was soon to be born. Paige had been diagnosed with Trisomy 18, and the doctors...

About thirty years ago, an FBI agent showed up at the office where I was employed to ask questions of me. There was no small talk. He was a tall, stoic man—all business. The questions he asked were for him to learn as much as he could about a young...

When Ivon Wilson began to be interested in Hazel Frymire, he invited her to go with him for dinner. She turned him down due to a scheduling conflict, explaining that she needed to attend a Gospel workers’ meeting. Brother Ivon recognized that this young lady was putting God first. He...

Reverence has been a hallmark of Apostolic Faith churches since the founding of our organization. That attitude of honor toward God and His house was apparent to me in 1974 when I first visited our Roseburg, Oregon, church as an unsaved, unchurched twenty-one-year old. I observed that the ministers and...

In his sermon Validated Faith, Michael Anthony speaks of the necessity of faith from experience. When he was appointed Eastern Caribbean District Superintendent for the Apostolic Faith organization four years ago, he faced a daunting challenge. The half-completed Smith Bay church on the island of St. Thomas had been under...

In this issue of Higher Way, you will find the sermon God’s Prescription for the Sick and Afflicted. Have you ever wondered why every ill person who follows the instructions in James 5:13-15 is not healed? For example, further on in this same issue, we read of one individual who...

Pete and Janet DeBusk (read their testimonies) illustrate the value of persevering in prayer for unsaved children. Back in the 1970s, as a new convert in our Dallas, Oregon, church where the two of them had long attended, I volunteered to paint Sunday school tables and benches. When coming or going during...

The first time Debbie and I saw Katrina, she had dropped from her two pound, three ounce birth weight to one pound, fourteen ounces. Standing beside her incubator with her parents, Gary and Gaylen Olson (read Gaylen’s story), we saw more cords and monitors than baby—Katrina was so tiny she could...

Sherry Schuermyer is well known in our Portland congregation for her delicious home-baked cookies. While my wife, Debbie, prefers Sherry’s chocolate chip creations with her glass of milk, my favorites are her peanut butter cookies… or maybe her oatmeal raisin. Well, her snickerdoodles are hard to beat as well! Many...

Oniyas Gumbo’s first contact with the Apostolic Faith church was through an issue of one of these magazines in the early 1970s when he was a twenty-year-old university student. He read The Light of Hope, as it was then called, while deathly ill in an infirmary in Zimbabwe. He was...

When my wife, Debbie, and I visited Romania in 2006, it was as if we had stepped back in time. Though Communism had collapsed there with Ceausescu’s overthrow in 1989, the impact of that oppressive government system remained evident. It seemed time had stood still; the homes and farms we...

Brandon Frymire’s combat experiences (see his testimony) remind me of his grandfather Roy’s warfare of a different sort, although Roy Frymire also served in our country’s military. Brother Roy was the fifth of nine children born to Brandon’s godly great-grandparents. Through the years, dozens of Frymire descendants have faithfully served...

When I stepped onto the Portland campground for the first time in July of 1974 to attend camp meeting as a twenty-one-year-old new convert, many surprises awaited me. For one thing, I did not know what a camp meeting was! My expectation was that those in attendance would be roasting...

I know something about coming hungry to the Phillips’ table (see Earl Phillips’ sermon). My first visit to their home was on Mother’s Day 1974, when Brother Earl was serving as pastor of our Dallas, Oregon, Apostolic Faith Church. The evening before, I had telephoned him from my apartment thirty...

Since the time of the apostles, Christians have had to stand against challenges to their faith. Some have experienced challenges in the form of outright persecution. Others have simply been made to feel uncomfortable for their beliefs. Some have stood against public challenges such as laws that go against Biblical...

During a recent stay in Harare, Zimbabwe, it was a blessing to become acquainted with Lancelot Muzondo, who was the first Zimbabwean to correspond with our organization’s headquarters back in 1953, when Zimbabwe was known as Rhodesia. He was the one who introduced Morgan Sengwayo (read his testimony) to the...

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The Apostolic Faith Church is conservative in nature, following
a tradition of Wesleyan holiness taught and practiced by
those whom the Holy Spirit descended on at the Azusa Street Revival.